It is appalling to see some of our fellow compatriots post the photographs of the former military head of state , General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida on their Facebook walls with remarks and commentaries mocking his “ ailment”. One of the…
Tolu Olarewaju, Staffordshire University – Two of the largest banking and financial services institutions in the world, HSBC and UBS, have recently closed their local representative offices in Nigeria. There’s also trouble brewing elsewhere in Nigeria’s business world that’s prompted…
John J Stremlau, University of the Witwatersrand – More than a dozen national elections will be held across Africa next year. All 55 members of the African Union (AU) are obligated to hold regular and ostensibly democratic elections. They must…
For a moment, it appeared the Police had a case against Deji Adeyanju, the Convener of ‘Concerned Nigerians’ whom it picked up on Wednesday just at the start of the ‘Police Not Politicians’ protest to raise public awareness of the…
Thirty years ago, being HIV positive was a virtual death sentence. There was no effective treatment. AZT, also known as Zidovudine—one of the earliest anti-HIV drugs—was approved in the US in 1987, but it took many years before life-saving three-drug…
This is a personal journey: Before I left for the United Kingdom in September 2017, I promised myself that my master degree was not going to be just another one. I said to myself that this one will be one…
As we count down to Nigeria’s next general election which is 80 days away, I took it upon myself to unravel the mystery of the country’s electoral albatross and found out that legally, the framers of our laws have done…
By Jibrin Ibrahim – This week, the Yar’Adua Centre held a conference on citizenship, democracy and the culture of transactional politics in Nigeria. The underlying concern at the conference was the excessive role of corruption and money politics in the…
By Dele Momodu – Fellow Nigerians, today’s epistle was inspired last minute by an encounter I had last night with a Buharideen. I had been contemplating what to write about this week when I ran into a staff of Indomie…
Gender equality is the creation of opportunities, privileges, rights, advantages and the same level of freedom for both male and female. In some parts of the world, women are mostly victims of gender inequality. This is an unwelcomed development, as…
